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Slocan Lake canoe accident search resumes for 3 young people

An RCMP dive team is expected to start searching for three young men who have been missing since their canoe overturned in the cold waters of B.C.'s Slocan Lake on Saturday. A 19-year-old girl also aboard the canoe is dead.

"They're the same age as my kids, so you get to know all the kids in town pretty well. I think everybody's kind of in a state of suspended animation because there's a lot of unknowns, but everybody's stunned. It's very raw."

On Sunday night, a number of residents from the area gathered for a community healing ceremony on a beach on the shore of Slocan Lake.

Grief counselling is being offered to students in New Denver and the surrounding area.